Song Of the Day: February 27, 2005
Naked Raygun-Rat Patrol
From Throb Throb, Homestead Records LP, 1984
"Napalm makes you vomit as it sizzles off your weenie."
"I am a fetus, I am a tumor, I am the local slime mold."
"Leeches! Let 'em Live!"
"I am the Peacemaker. I'll pound sand right up your ass."
Strange messages from space? No, just me and the guys sharing a few of our favorite Naked Raygun lines with each other. Except for that last one. Shammy was looking right at Mickey when he said it, and I think he kind of meant it.
Throb Throb, recently re-issued on Quarterstick Records, gets our vote as the best of several fine LPs by this Chicago band, and one of the dozen or so best US punk albums. Borrowing Buzzcocks' rhythm guitar chug and "whoa-oh" backing vocals, and showing a remarkable facility for hooks, Naked Raygun managed to inject their songs with equal parts menace and humor.
"I am a fetus, I am a tumor, I am the local slime mold."
"Leeches! Let 'em Live!"
"I am the Peacemaker. I'll pound sand right up your ass."
Strange messages from space? No, just me and the guys sharing a few of our favorite Naked Raygun lines with each other. Except for that last one. Shammy was looking right at Mickey when he said it, and I think he kind of meant it.
Throb Throb, recently re-issued on Quarterstick Records, gets our vote as the best of several fine LPs by this Chicago band, and one of the dozen or so best US punk albums. Borrowing Buzzcocks' rhythm guitar chug and "whoa-oh" backing vocals, and showing a remarkable facility for hooks, Naked Raygun managed to inject their songs with equal parts menace and humor.
posted by Jon Harrison at 6:15 PM
4 Comments:
Naked Raygun rules the world. They always have, and they always will.
Nice to see some classic 80s hardcore on here! Great song too!
Great song, sure, but I think if I had to pick only one tune from Throb Throb, "Managua" would be definitive. Also, didn't NR do a great cover of Buzzcocks' "Lipstick" or am I misremembering?
so wtf, is that it, is this blog dead? what gives? or did i somehow favorite the wrong page?
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